Letting Go of Trying to See the Mystery

In this opening verse of the dao, di ching lausu tells us that the tao is both named and nameless. This sounds paradoxical to our western intellect, and it is paradoxical. Thinking is embedded in eastern concepts such as yin and yang or the feminine and the masculine. And where things are comfortably described both this and that. We in the west tend to view opposites as incompatible concepts that contradict each other. Yet this book is asking that we change our ingrained ways of thinking and see how our lives change as a result.